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CALVIN YOUNG, OF AUBURN, NEWV YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,798, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed August (1, 1886. Serial No. 210,242. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, CALVIN YOUNG, of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Grain'Binding Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference more especially to the framework of grain-binding machines of the Appleby type, and is intended to facilitate the adjustment and connection of the sill-pieces of the binder-frame orstandard and the breast-plate, to lessen the labor and expense of fitting said parts, and to give them increased rigidity.

Binder-frames of the class under consideration consist, principally, of two sills or basepieces, a standard having horizontal arms at the top and bottom, variously known as the binder frame and as the binder gear standard, and a breast-plate lying above the grain-passage and beneath the tying mechanism. As these parts have been heretofore constructed it has been found necessary to mill or otherwise finish portions of the metal sills in order to fit them to the base of the standard. To obviate this trouble and expense, and at the same time secure the proper relations of the several parts to each other, I construct the standard and the sills with surfaces adapted to be brought together without the necessity of machining them, and connect them by bolts passing through enlarged openings orslots, so that the standard may be properly adjusted in reference to the sills.

The breast-plate has been commonly constructed of cast-iron with a longitudinal slot for the passage of the needle and with flanges along the edges of the slot. I construct my improved plate of a sheet of wrought-iron or other suitable metal bent into the required form, and stiffened by a light slotted casting of suitable form riveted thereto, this casting having, preferably, a flange to enter the edges of the slot in the breast-plate, as hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a complete binding'machine having my improvements embodied therein. Fig. 2 is a rear end elevation of the binder-framefroin a point of view opposite to that of Fig. 1, showing particularly the rear face of the inner or rear sill. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the shaft-bearing removed from the rear sill. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the rear sill as viewed from the inner or forward side. Fig. 4. is afront elevation of the entire binderframe. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the shaftbearing detached from the front sill. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the front sill viewed from the inner or rear side. Fig. 6 is an elevation of the binder-frame viewed from the outer or stubble side. Fig. 7 is an edge view of my breast-plate and parts connected thereto. Fig. 8 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 9 is an under face view of the same. Fig. 10 isa cross-section of the same on theline :c w of the two preceding figures. Fig. 11 is an elevation of the frame looking from the outer or graindelivery side, the lower sills and a portion of the standard being shown in vertical crosssection. Fig. 12 is a rear elevation of the binder-frame and its supports and the binding-table, the supports and table being shown in cross-section. Fig. 13 is a side elevation of one of the paclrenarnis.

Referring to the drawings, the frame proper consists of the standard A and the two sills B and B, upon which it is rigidly secured and by which it is supported. The sills B and B are each cast complete in one piece, and are secured at their ends rigidly to horizontal connecting and supporting rods or pipes D,which are passed through openings cast for the purpose in the ends of the sills.

The standard A comprises, as usual, a horizontal tubular base -arm, a, underlying the grain-passage, a horizontal tubnlartop arm, b, overlying the grain-passage, and the upright portion a, by which the two arms are connected, and the series of driving-gear supported as in existing machines. The base of the standard, instead of being made of fiat form and seated on top of the sill, as usual, is formed at the forward end with a side recess or depression at the base of suitable form to receive the up right edge or flange of the front sill, B,which is seated against its side, as shown. The adjacent surfaces of the two parts in which the shaft -bearings are formed, substantially as usual, are adapted one to the other, as shown. The two parts are connected by horizontal bolts Eand Fpassing through them, as shown. In order to permitthe adj ustment of the standard with reference to the sill to bring the centers of the operating devices thereon in proper relations, the sill is provided with a horizontal slot, G, through which the bolt E passes, and with an upright slot, H, through which the bolt F passes. These slots, which are plainly shown in Fig. 5, admit of the bolts being adjusted in position so as to bring the standard in the exact position required with reference to the sill, and this without the necessity of milling or otherwise fitting the surfaces. If preferred, the slots are formed in the standard instead of the sill, or both parts may be provided with slots, the essential feature of the invention consisting in the connection of the standard to the sill by bolts passing through enlarged holes, so as to admit of the requisite adjustment between the standard and sill, and so long as this feature is retained the form of the parts may be modified at will. The pro jecti-ng surfaces at the lower end of the stand ard bearing against the front sill being connected rigidly to the standard and to the tubes D D, which are also secured to the rear sill, B, it follows that the two sills will remain in accurate alignment. The rear sill (shown clearly in Figs. 2, 3, and 6) is provided with an eye or opening, through which the rear end of the lower arm, a, of the standard is extended. On one side this eye is provided with a horizontal slot which receives a rib or fin, f, formed on the side of the arm a, this construction serving to assist in maintaining a proper relation between the standard and the rear sill and to keep the rear sillin alignment with its companion.

I provide each sill with a removable box or bearing, 9, fitted therein in a well-known manner, to receive one of the binder-shafts. Vith the exception of the features hereinbefore described andspecified in the claims, the binderframe may be of any suitable construction.

For the purpose of facilitating the lubrication of the shafts and bearings located beneath. the binding-table without removing the latter, I provide a series of oil-ducts leading thence upward to or through the binding-table and provided with suitable caps or closing devices, whichadmit of the oil being delivered through the table into the ducts. These are plainly shown in Figs. 12 and 18, in which, referring to Fig. 12, m represents the usual bearing in the base of the standard for the needleshaft a, the oil duct or inlet extending upward through an opening in the bindingtablep; and o, a hinged cap or cover for the oil-inlet. The packer-shaft bearing 1 is provided with a duct, r, extending from the bearing upward to an opening in the table, where it is closed by a cap, as in the previous example. N M represent the packer-arms carried by operatingcranks, and sustained at their heel ends by swinging links in the ordinary manner. In applying my improvement I provide each arm on its side with a duct or channel, 1", leading from the crank-box or extend to or through an opening in the bind ing-table when the packer is carried upward.

Instead of constructing the breast-plate of cast-metal in the ordinary manner, I form its body of a flat sheet of wrought-iron or equivalent metal cut to suitable form and bent into shape, as shown at I in Figs. 7 to 10. In order to give this plate the necessary rigidity I apply to its under side a cast-metal plate, J, secured thereto by rivets. This plate encircles the usual slot in the breast-plate, and is preferably provided, as in Fig. 10, with a flange or lip, m, turned upward through said slot to protect the lower edges of the metal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a binder-frame, the combination of the standard A and sill B, having upright faces united by horizontal bolts passing through openings enlarged to permit the lateral movement of the bolt therein, substantially as described, whereby the adjustment of the standard with reference to the sill is permitted.

2. In a binder-frame, the combination-of the standard A, having its base recessed or depressed laterally, in combination with the sill B, having its upper edge seated in said depression and provided with elongated openings G and H, in combination with horizontal connecting-bolts E and F.

3. The sill B, having the vertical face with the horizontally-elongated opening G and ver-.

tically-elongated opening H therethrough, in combination with the standard seated against the side face of the sill and connected thereto by horizontal bolts, as described.

4. In combination with thesill B, the binderstandard A, having its lower arm, a, projected through an opening in said sill, as described.

5. The sill B, in combination with the binder-standard having its arm (1 extended therethrough, said parts adapted, substantially as described, to interlock and prevent the rotation of the arm within the sill.

6. In a binder-frame, the combination of the standard A, the sill B, adjustably secured thereto at one end by bolts, and the sill B, encircling the lower arm of the standard at the opposite end.

7. The improved breastplate, consisting of the slotted sheet-metalplate and the slotted casting secured to its under surface, substantially as described.

8. In combination with the slotted sheetmetal plate forming the body of the breastplate, the slotted casting secured to its under face and provided with the flange or bead fitting within the slot of the upper plate, as de scribed.

In testimony whereof I. hereunto set my hand, this 26th day of July, 1886, in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

CALVIN YOUNG.

Witnesses:

J. FRANK DAVIS, T. M. OSBORNE.

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